The World at War (17 page)

AMBASSADOR W AVERELL HARRIMAN

President Roosevelt's Special Envoy to Europe

I saw a great deal of him and when I told him my instructions he said, 'We'll find out what we need, then you see what you can do.' So I spent a number of weekends with him, saw him once or twice a week, and he had an office at the Admiralty but he used to take me with him to the different cities that were bombed. He thought it helped morale for him to go about and he thought of bringing me along as an American, Mr Harriman. I had no particular title but everyone knew that I was there to

Interviewee SS Colonel Karl Wolff
(right)
with Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler.

Adolf Galland, interviewee, during the Battle of Britain.

Interviewee Lieutenant General Mark Clark
(right)
and Montgomery after their landings in southern Italy.

Major General J Lawton 'Lightning Joe' Collins, interviewee, decorated by Montgomery in Normandy.

All in his name: the Emperor Hirohito.

Japanese bombing of the undefended Chungking in February 1938.

Appeasement at Munich, September 1938.

During the Phoney War, men of 51st Highland Division entering the Maginot line, 1940.

Troops awaiting evacuation from a beach near Dunkirk.

Destroyers were the workhorses of the Dunkirk evacuation: this 'V' class vessel is crowded with troops.

Iconic triumph: Hitler and interviewee Albert Speer in Paris.

Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, June 1940.